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An arcade bar is coming to the Greektown area of Detroit this spring with craft brews, cocktails and dining.

From left, Ready Player One general manager Nick Silas, 27; and co-owners Wael Garbie, 30, and Mohamed Badaoui, 30, all of Dearborn, plan to open their arcade-bar this spring on 407 East Fort Street in downtown Detroit.(Photo: Robert Allen /Detroit Free Press)

Downtown's second arcade-bar and restaurant -- with classic 1980s- and '90s-era cabinets and pinball -- opens at 5 p.m. Friday at the Globe Tobacco Building on 407 E. Fort.

Ready Player One, the endeavor of three friends from Dearborn, is to offer roughly 30 arcade games and 10 pinball machines in its 3,500-square-foot basement area.

The national trend combining nostalgic, coin-operated arcade cabinets with craft beer is growing quickly in Detroit, with plans in the works for more arcade bars. It isn't drawing near the amount of scrutiny that video arcades did in the early 1980s, when neighborhood residents protested them as hotbeds for violent crime.

This month, a soft-opening photo on Facebook included sliders, sandwiches, wings and more. And Executive Chef Jordan Ceresnie, who previously worked at Zingerman's Roadhouse in Ann Arbor and Michelin-star-awarded Bouchon Bakery in Napa Valley, Calif., was introduced in a separate post.

Pop + Offworld Arcade, a separate arcade-bar, opened in September in the Cadillac Square area of downtown Detroit. It offers more than 30 arcades, craft beer and pizza above the Checker Bar.

In August, a development project on 666 Selden Street in Midtown was announced to include a "Barcade," a craft beer bar with classic video games that got its start in Brooklyn, according to a news release.